Because it’s no longer acceptable to lovingly embalm your dead and keep them secretly entombed in your home, a new company has created something that’s almost as good: a perfume that smells like the living body of your dearly departed. It’s called Olfactory Links and isn’t half as creepy as you’d think. »6/16/15 7:10pm 6/16/15 7:10pm

It's been a good week for the olfactory glands, eau my, what with George Takei releasing his very own scent and, thanks to the limitless capacity of ironic advertising campaigns to separate people from their holiday bonus money, the arrival of Helvetica: The Perfume. »12/01/13 3:00pm 12/01/13 3:00pm

The oh-so-fun lads of One Direction took the time to sniff a bunch of chemicals and "create" a fragrance — Our Moment — and in the UK, the scent has been on sale at Harrod's for a week and has already raked in £360,000 — which is $560,00 — as in over HALF A MILLION. In one week. This number includes pre-orders, aka… »9/06/13 10:50am 9/06/13 10:50am

New fragrance Prends-Moi, which claims to be the world's first slimming perfume (but probably won't be the last, since we love spending money on bizarre weight loss scams), promises to "slim with pleasure" thanks to notes of caffeine, carnitine, and spirulina. Mmmmm. »7/31/12 5:20pm 7/31/12 5:20pm

Father's Day may have come and gone, but fortunately Yankee Candle's special collection of "man candles" (yes, seriously) are still available for all of your masculine odor-masking needs. With scents like "2x4" and "Riding Mower"—which both smell like exactly what you'd expect—you can cater to the stereotypical… »6/18/12 11:55pm 6/18/12 11:55pm

Are you a serious bookworm? Are you seeking to impress people with your love of reading or attract only the most erudite of mates? Then perhaps you would like to invest in a bottle of Paper Passion, the perfume that will make you smell exactly like a freshly printed book—because, as Karl Lagerfeld says, "The smell of… »6/03/12 9:45pm 6/03/12 9:45pm

We all know that particular scent that old people have. It's subtly sweet but also brings to mind decay and mortality. It's complex, like a fine wine. Well, anyway, it turns out that science has spent some valuable time confirming that, in fact, the scent does exist, and it's actually rather pleasing. »5/30/12 11:55pm 5/30/12 11:55pm

Scientists, ever on the hunt to find ways to keep us looking slim and trim, have done a new study and discovered a revolutionary new way for us to trick ourselves into taking smaller bites. No, it's not by simply saying to yourself, "Why don't you take a smaller bite this time, friend?"—that would be too easy, silly… »3/24/12 2:20pm 3/24/12 2:20pm

We're all used to smelling those dastardly perfume samples in magazines, but now it looks like advertisers may have found an even more effective way to torment our senses while trying to trick us into buying something. McCain Foods is using a new kind of scent technology to promote a product called Ready Baked… »2/08/12 11:15pm 2/08/12 11:15pm

Flipping through the September magazines, you may come upon a four-page ad for Mariah Carey's fragrance collection, Lollipop Bling. A heavily Photoshopped MC floats on a pink cloud, in a sky strewn with clip-art-esque butterflies and candy. Wait, there's more! »8/12/10 1:05pm 8/12/10 1:05pm

A Japanese website uses an online map to locate unusual smells. Since the site's launch last month, the members of the "Smell Club" have identified more than 160 odors in 68 locations. Rather than just cataloging pleasant smells, members are so devoted that they seek out scents like "toasty odor of cow dung" or "cat… »1/13/09 9:40am 1/13/09 9:40am

Save the beer, vomit and weed jokes: Masik Collegiate Fragrances of Harrisburg, Pa. makes perfumes that capture the essence of an alma mater. Katie Masik came up with the concept a year and a half ago and went into business with her family, designing perfumes that "are both literal interpretations of campus smells and… »12/05/08 10:20am 12/05/08 10:20am

Hey, if Jessica Simpson can have a fragrance, why not Jessica Dunne? The Chicago artist, who had no experience in the beauty industry, spent about $100,000 of her own money to produce "
Ellie »8/21/08 12:20pm 8/21/08 12:20pm," "a quaint floral heavy on lily of the valley" based on her memories of her grandmother. Her success story is the definition of…